What did the Xbone do right?

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Doug Las

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Since it wants to be the "one" device to combine all the others, it's pretty much mandatory, but still a nice improvement to have a blue-ray drive in the XBOX.
 

MetalGearblack

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On the controller the Xbox guide button was moved up, some of my friends without a Xbox 360 hit the guide button by mistake when playing on my 360.
 

Evil Smurf

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I want to buy one and install Linux on it. It seems like a fun project.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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I'll save my opining for the year after the launch. Then I will determine whether or not this next gen of consoles is worth anything other than an overpriced paperweight. Hell it doesn't even seem to have a complimentary coffee cupholder since its a slot-feed disc now.
 

Ed130 The Vanguard

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It showed off the actual console, which admittedly looks like a Crestron Controller (ie a big black box) which was something Sony didn't do.

Too bad about everything else although.
 

EstrogenicMuscle

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Um.... uh.... this is hard.

Well, the controller looks nice.
bigfatcarp93 said:
Well... the Controller looks cool.
Cooperblack said:
Hmm ehh.. the controller looked nice?
Well, aren't I original?

I don't think the name "XBOX One" is as bad as some people make it out to be. Companies do this all the time when they're looking for a fresh beginning. With just about everything. I doubt that the AMD HD xxxx series is going to continue much longer because once they hit the HD 9999 ultra enthusiast edition or something like that, they'd have to go to something like HD 10,000 or something like that. Which they won't do, they'll come up with a new label and numbering system. Going with numbered patterns has a limited time. The name "PlayStation 4" actually isn't that great. And very few companies can keep piling on numbers successful. You have Final Fantasy XIV, but not much else.

XBOX One market fresh beginnings. Companies like to go for that. Unfortunately, this new beginning for Microsoft is a horrible one. GET IT, horrible one? I... I didn't mean a joke there originally at all. Gosh, there's going to be so many unintentional puns about the XBOX One. People are going to have to clarify "no pun intended" every time.

Oh hey, the showed... Forza?
 

Arfonious

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Well the box itself looks kind of cool, and the controller.

But as a gaming console it has yet to shine
 

Colt47

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The controller is the most positive thing out of the announcement. People have been asking for a better D-Pad on a 360 controller since the 360 got released, and while they did fix the issue somewhat with the newer edition of the controller, the Xbox One controller D-Pad sounds like it comes closer to what people expect.
 

EstrogenicMuscle

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Arfonious said:
But as a gaming console it has yet to shine
It doesn't have any opportunity whatsoever to shine unless they completely abandon the DRM junk.

The DRM is a complete dealbreaker for most people and is undeniably the worst thing about this system. People have been comparing this to failures like the Phillips CD-i. But at least the Phillips CD-i can play used games.

Hey, what about the SEGA CD? Even that has some good games I care about. And I buy and and play them used.
 

BleedingPride

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Well, um... hm... it's certainly a box, so they got that part down. I guess that dog in the mocap suit was cool, but that's about all I was even remotely interested with.
 

Eve Charm

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Oh I know, It made me not as excited at the ps4 anymore since both will probably bomb with how restricted and non core audience they are making both of them.
 

cikame

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This is kind of a bad thing i'm choosing to disguise as a good thing, it is the embodiment of almost everything we hate about where video games seem to be going, so hopefully other companies know what to avoid in the future as long as people don't buy into this mess.
 

SirDeadly

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I think I may be one of only a handful of people who actually like the new xbox. Sure they could have shown more game footage but what would be left for everyone to see at E3? I love the new controller design and the new kinect features actually look really useful. I think the reveal was exactly the right thing to do, they showed everything that the console can do. We know it will play games, it makes sense to save them for later.


EDIT: Can someone link me to some articles that talk about the DRM, etc. Unless I missed something I don't think it was mentioned in the press conference.
 

Zeh Don

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SirDeadly said:
...I think the reveal was exactly the right thing to do, they showed everything that the console can do...
Except the thing that we're going to pay them US$500.00 for it to do. Ya know, the games part?

SirDeadly said:
We know it will play games, it makes sense to save them for later.
Of course it does. You don't show games for your games console. What kind of backwards world are we living in where gamers what to see what games on their potential games console are going to look, play and act like? Fucking entitlement, man.
 

SirDeadly

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Zeh Don said:
SirDeadly said:
...I think the reveal was exactly the right thing to do, they showed everything that the console can do...
Except the thing that we're going to pay them US$500.00 for it to do. Ya know, the games part?

SirDeadly said:
We know it will play games, it makes sense to save them for later.
Of course it does. You don't show games for your games console. What kind of backwards world are we living in where gamers what to see what games on their potential games console are going to look, play and act like? Fucking entitlement, man.
I live in Australia, I'm going to have to pay close to $1000 for either next-gen console anyway. There is something called E3 coming up which will be used to show games and we'll see so much more than what we would have in a reveal press conference. I think Microsoft has something big planned for E3.
 

Sectan

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I get to say Xboner every time this subject comes up...Oh and I'll hopefully see more people joining the PC gaming master race. (dats a joke about master race.)